Today's music: P.J. Harvey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De-p_E650Ik
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Philosopher. Educator. Journalist. Programmer. Photographer. Cyclist. Socialist.
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(P.S. The original name was 'Content Addressible Resources for Education' but while working today with Claude to rebuild it I never told it this, so the current name is Claude's best guess as to what CARE stands for - now I have mixed feelings about what the acronym should officially be)
(P.P.S. if you think I'm just vibe-coding with Claude, think again. There's a lot of thought going into the design and back-and-forth between Claude and me)
I've completely rewritten my CARE application — Content-Addressed Resource Exchange. This was my project from a few years ago to distribute Open Educational Resources (OER) on IPFS, a decentralized file storage system. https://github.com/Downes/CARE-project
An account is required to upload, and the demo version is a 'hermit' node, not actively publishing to IPFS, but the code includes full IPFS support. https://care.mooc.ca/
(I wanted to do all this 10 years ago but it was way too far ahead of its time)
Today's music: Faun - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbFVv2i5tig
Faun - M'era Luna 2025 – ARTE Concert
Woodpecker #DailyPhoto #Photography ottawa, bird, 2026365 March 29, 2026. We went for a walk along the Ottawa River Valley today - it's that point where there's not enough snow for winter sports but there's too much snow for bicycles - the perfect day to walk these trails. https://ift.tt/9fCVA2R
Woodpecker
March 28, 2026. Grackle. This bird and a dozen of it's colleagues descended in the bird feeder today, cleaning it out. A sure sign of spring.
March 27, 2026. First bike ride of the year - from the car dealership, where my tires are being changed, to the bike shop, for a new chain and cassette (among other things). A cold slushy 6 km ride.
P.S. See my Retirement FAQ for more: https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2026/01/stephens-retirement-faq.html
With my retirement now just a few days away I have added the subscription links to my page so you can support continued publication of OLDaily.
